In a two short weeks Town Hall Seattle will be hosting Paul Gilding, author of The Great Disruption. Paul will be discussing the now unavoidable consequences of climate change and the challenges humanity will face. But in the face of such great challenges Paul envisions it will bring out the best of us: compassion, innovation, [...]
TreeHugger, by far one of the largest green blogs in the world, recently announced it’s Best of Green 2011 awards. And in the category for Best Green Think Tank? No other than the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy! CASSE folks are delighted, of course! Here’s what TreeHugger had to say about [...]
It was announced late last night by a Swedish research team that a new wonder element has been discovered. The team says that this element, Unbelievium, can be used to generate large amounts of pollution-free energy, with it’s resulting by products being easily used to create carbon fiber, desalinated clean water, and hydrogen (which can [...]
I’ve been silent for the past few weeks for a couple reasons: my wife’s been working through her finals and I’ve been working on the new Post Growth website. Check out the new Post Growth Institute website I’ve also been working on a guest post for The Daly News, which will hopefully be finished in [...]
The House of Representatives recently voted to eliminate public broadcasting. This means no more NPR, no more Sesame Street (won’t somebody think of the children?!), no more Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me, no more PBS Kids. As a parent with a child who loves Elmo, as well as a frequent listener of npr’s great programs, [...]
When you first learn about how our money is controlled, created and loaned you might very well not believe it. In fact, it is both so simple and so outrageous that often people think it is a lie. The reality is that our privately owned, corporate banking institutions have the power to create money out of thin air, [...]
Or How We've Got A Lot In Common With Yeast
by Joshua on February 5, 2011 · 1 comment
There once was a time when I was a very active homebrewer, making upwards of 14 batches of beer a year. Things have slowed down on that front quite a bit since having our son (not to mention my increased activity blogging and working on post-growth projects). Nowadays I make mead, wine and the occasional [...]
Next month is the Global Population Speak Out Month – a whole month focused on raising awareness of a large (and growing) issue – population growth. We live on a finite planet, with only so many resources. Yet our population (and consumption, as I mentioned earlier) continues to grow. We’re over-stretching our carrying capacity, and [...]